Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and s...tings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

With its frame of shaking curls all in disarray,earrings swinging,...make-up smudged by beads of sweat,eyes languid at the end of lovemaking,may the face of the slim girlwho's riding on top of youprotect you long.What's the useof Vishnu, Shiva, Skanda,and all those other gods?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »